Game board



Nov. 13,1923.

A. L. ROBERTS GAME BOARD Filed Dec. 22

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ALVA L. ROBERTS, OF HUBBARD, OHIO.

GAME BOARD.

Application fi1ed December 22, 1922. Serial No. 608,564.

To aZZ whom it may concern: inturned guides 13 and 1a which are irreg- Be it known that ALVA L. Ronnn'rs, a ular as to their position. Directly below citizen of the United States of America, rethe guides above mentioned, between the siding at Hubbard, in the county of Trumguides 8 are located 3 arch-shaped guides 5 bull and State of Ohio, has invented cer- 15, 16, and 17. These guides are positioned tain new and useful Improvements in in a line parallel to the row of pins 6. Di- Game Boards, of which the following is a rectly below the guides 15, 16, and 17 are specification. placed 2 arch-shaped guides 18 and 19 This invention relates to game board or which are positioned in staggered arran e- 10 apparatus, and the object thereof, is to proment, in reference to'the arch-shaped gui es vide an improved device of this class which 15, 16, and 17. The outwardly turned is designed to amuse and entertain both old guides 20 and 21 are located below the side and young. of the inturned guides 9 centrally located In this device the game is played. with and below the out turned guides 20 and 21 15 three marbles, first being red, another white, there is positioned a single arch-shaped and another blue. The marbles are released guide 22. On each side of this arch-shaped at one end of a game board, where the marguide 22 there is located straight guide bles pass between a plurality of pins, and members 23 and 241. These guide members then travel down an incline, being deflected are located so that the lower ends 25 of the 20 by means of a number of guides placed on same point inwardly, at any desired degree.

the incline board. As the marbles roll over In playing this game, the marbles are the guides they finally reach a plurality of taken from a receptacle 26, positioned unpockets, that are colored, red, White and derneath the end 7 and held in position by blue. The game may beplayed giving a means of a bracket 27. These marbles are 26 certain number as a winning point for each released at any position bout the pins 6 pocket. and are allowed to travel by means of grav- The drawing illustrates the preferred emity down the inclined board 1, pass through bodiment of the invention. However, it is the uides above described until the marto be understood that in adapting the same bles nally reach a series of pockets 31, 32,

30 to meeting difi'erent conditions, various and 33. These pocket bottoms may be colchanges in the form, and minor details of cred, if desired, to correspond with the colconstruction may be resorted to without ors of the marbles used, such as red, white, departing from the nature of the invention and blue. There is a central pocket 34 10- as claimed and set forth in the drawing: cated at the bottom of board 1, which is di- 35 Figure 1 is a perspective view of the game vided by means of a painted boundary line device. in place of partition walls 35 as are used to Figure 2 is a detailed sectional view taken separate the series of pockets above referred on lines 2--2 of Figure 1. to. This central pocket 35, having the bot- In the construction of my invention, ll tom painted into divisions corresponding 40 have provided an inclined board 1 which with the colors of the marbles used.

has sides 2 and a lower end3. The board 1 What I claim is: is placed on an incline by means of support In a device of the class described, an in- 4 which may be secured so that the same clined board, slde walls attached to said may be folded against the under side of the board, a lower end secured to said side is board 1 when not in use. This may be done walls, a plurality of pins equally spaced by releasing a brace rod 5 (see Figure 2), apart positioned parallel and located near 0 when folding the same. the upper end of said inclined board, a se- The device consists of a plurality of pins ries of inturned guides turning inwardly 6 spaced equally apart and located at the from the side walls, a plurality of inturned 50 upper end? of the board 1. The sides 2 are and out turned guides, positioned in a line rovided with inturned guides 8, 9, and 10. between the upper side wall guides, a pluraletween the guides 8 are positioned guides ity of arch-shaped guides positioned in 11 and 12 which are similar in construction, staggered arrangement, a pair of outturned but located on opposite sides of the central guides positioned below the above mentioned arch-shaped guides, a, centrally 10- said series of pockets, substantially as decated arch-shaped guide positioned below scribed for the purpose set forth. the pair of out turned guides, a pair of In testimony whereofI afiix my signature. straight guides positioned on each Side of ALVA L. ROBERTS.

5 the single arch-shaped guide, a "series of Witnesses:

three pockets formed at the lower end of the C; A. HARPMAN, inclined board, a, pocket positioned between t 'L; A. OMLoR; 

